Move the Mic Stand: From Car Life to Neuropathy - The Dr. Dan Journey

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Description: This week on the Move the Mic Stand podcast, Dean and Ka$h Money Karl sit down with the adventurous Dr. Dan Ceballos! Dr. Dan shares his eye-opening experiences from living in his car for the past year, his journey of helping others through his online neuropathy business, and his recent move to Dallas. Plus, Dr. Dan flips the script and asks the hosts for their best tips on conquering nerves in comedy. Tune in for a fun, insightful, and laughter-filled episode!

Comedy Tip: How do you deal with nerves?

Hosts:
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Ka$h Money Karl
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Move the Mic Stand is a TapeDeck Media production.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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hosts of the Move the Mic Stand comedy podcast, and
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(00:20):
enjoy the show.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Step up to the mic.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
It's time to shine Dean com We're crossing that line
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Speaker 4 (00:32):
We'll bringing the boat. Season two's here.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
It's got a people tim coonin t.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
Are you ready?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
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Speaker 5 (01:17):
Hey everybody, welcome this week episode of Move the Mic
Stand Podcast. I'm one of your hosts, Deanberg, and with
me as always, is my.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Co host Cash Money Carl.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Hey, Hey, what's up, buddy. We got a special guest
with us today too.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
It's crowded in the studio.

Speaker 5 (01:36):
We're spilling water and everything.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
At least it's not exploding soda.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
No fucking don't get me started in that ship.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
So who's our special guest?

Speaker 5 (01:46):
It is my very good and close friend, doctor Dan sabaios.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Hey, cash Money, Carl Hey, Dean Berg.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
Hey. He said he didn't have to say hi to
me because we talk all the time, and I saw
him yesterday and today.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
Wait, so you're saying you don't have to say ahi
to me because all the time. Right, So, going forward,
our intros are just going to be like, Hey, hey,
neighbor over there, guy whose name I don't know but
I want to call you Dave? Is that really you
don't know your neighbor's name.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
I only know one over here. I won't say your name,
but it's the old lady.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
It's because you don't know it anyway, But that's okay, I.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
Do I do she permission to say her name?

Speaker 2 (02:31):
You like?

Speaker 5 (02:33):
She's the one that one of the first episodes we did,
there was like a shadow coming around kind.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Of well peep and Tom her name is Tom.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
Well she told me that. She's like, we used to
have the most wonderful parties in there. What are you
doing there now? I'm like, it's a it's a studio.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Have you described the seater room yet?

Speaker 5 (02:55):
Have I described it? Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
We talked about it in an episode with uh put
it in your mouth Craft. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
He said it looked like a church.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
He said it looked like a church on like this
because it used to be one.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
It's a shrine dedicated to uh, famous comics of the past.
And I'm looking up into the walls and seeing some
famous faces. Robin Williams, any Coughman. Uh that.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
Sam. I didn't know who you're looking at because but
that's what I figured.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, Sam Kinnison. And then I learned that is Betty White.

Speaker 5 (03:28):
Yeah, that's a very young Betty White.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Really famous one on your right, the most famous william
That wasn't it. Yeah, the most famous one in the room.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
The Dean Bergman sign. Yeah, I don't have any of
the too many, way too many apostle Dean.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
Yeah light. I think my beard was great that day. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
This holy light behind you? Yep, the church or a stargate.
It could be a stargate that's.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
Behind it's a portal. Yeah, it's like a Minecraft. I
apparently dumped timelines all the time. It's a timeline portal.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
No, that's pretty Steve from Minecraft.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
That was that was.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
The art the inspiration.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
Yeah, I have to post a picture of it with
the with the link so people can actually see it,
because if they're like, what the hell.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah it's and it's a really great sticker.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Yeah, I have a sticker of it too.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, no, don't show them. People have to come up
here and droves buy tickets to come into the studio and.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
Walk around and touch things.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Like it would be like one of those side shows
back in the day. I don't know what we should
charge though, Like what's like back then there's like twenty
five cents and see like man eating lion and it's
a guy eating lion like a lion steak or something. Oh,
so what's the equivalent of like twenty five cents from
back then to now? What? Twenty bucks? Ten bucks, fifteen bucks?

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Probably I was gonna say ant like Katie, because.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
It's probably like three different options.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Probably all the way probably all those it's like eighty.
But that's what that adds up to, quick math.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Okay, sure, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
I didn't hear what you said. I just heard numbers.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, I think we're at forty five bucks.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
But yeah, as soon as you said numbers, my brain
was like, not today, no numbers today.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Well that was a description of the cedar room. Now
hopefully the audience or the listeners can get an idea
of what what kind of room we're in.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
Yeah, I got at that packer helmet. I actually got
from Barstool Sports, from Dave Portnoy during a.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Starteams like pizza.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
Well, he said Aaron Rodgers was going to sign it.
He didn't sign it, and so when I got it,
it was just a helmet. It's an authentic one, just
a helmet because they were doing like some kind of
thing online. But anyways, so how's it been going, Dan?

Speaker 2 (05:51):
It has been There's been a lot of travels, a
lot of travels in my time over the last let's
say twelve months.

Speaker 5 (05:57):
So for those of you that don't know, a while,
Dan was the manager at Fondiac's company, correct, and who
has been a sponsor of ours number of times, and
for the last year, almost to the date to the day,
he's been living out of his prius.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
Yeah, so he's not he's not homeless, So don't call
him homeless because he's got an apartment now. But even
even when he didn't, he was a traveler, that's right.
There's a traveler, which is actually not a terrible way
to live.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
I mean, believe it or not. I was able to
pull out the passenger seat, pull out the back seat,
and was able to put in get this, a fridge,
a toilet, a toilet, a pantry, yeah, and a sink
in the prius.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
His prius was bigger than most like New York City apartments.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
And a and a bed as well.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, yeah, I remember you're showing me after that show
we did at Winners. That's so cool.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
You guys got to take a sink peek. Ye got
to see the inside, and then you saw the attic.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
Yeah, the card box, the cargo box on top sometimes yeah, yep.
So that was like Chateau dan It was. It was.
It was.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
I like to call it my micro r V. Micro
RV yeah, micro RV.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
I can tell you I would love to have something
like that sometimes for some of these shows here in
the middle of nowhere, and it's like, honestly, your your
prius is better hooked up than a lot of the
hotels that I've been in in the last well in
two years.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
Kind of going off that too. He was still very hygienic, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, I was able to. So I had a membership
at Planet Fitness. Ye, and that's where I would you know,
shower and uh and do my business and occasionally work out.

Speaker 5 (07:46):
Yeah, and so occasionally work out. We will not elaborate
and run the business. Yeah imagination.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I would literally walk in and and they would say,
you know, have a great work and I'm like, well,
I might do that too, but I'm gonna go take
a shower.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Right, I'm gonna take a shower. Did you ever use
a tanning bed? Tanning beds?

Speaker 2 (08:07):
I've tried the tanning beds. Actually my favorite part is
the hydro beds. The hydro massage beds.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, the ones they like punch you basically
with water.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Correct Yeah, and then it's a bunch of super soakers
and the pretty much and it's it's on a like
some sort of conveyor belt, so it just goes and down,
up and down your body and uh. And so just
I would go in just to take a shower and
then use the hydro massage.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
Nice nice y Ever have anything weird having like yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Talking about you know, we're definitely can talk about yourself.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
Thousands of really big in Indonesia.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
Yeah, and and.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
And uranus, especially uranus.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah. But uh, funded fun story was I pulled into
this one, uh shall be nameless Planet Fitness And I
pulled in probably I don't know, maybe ten at night,
and I was just looking for a place this Saturday
sounds like, yeah, it wasn't It was in Uh, let's

(09:16):
see Virginia.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
Is this okay?

Speaker 4 (09:19):
And what's the city.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
Address?

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Exactly? And pulled in and uh and parked and and
and went to bed. And so I have I have
a virtual job, so I just log in at nine
in the morning check in. I was in the middle
of a of a conference or a call with my
my bosses when I got what I called the knock
where I was just sitting there and and I was

(09:46):
sitting there just talking, and then the security guard came
into my front window and uh, and he's, you know,
very cheerfully. He's like, sir, you know, can I help you?
And I look at him, I was like, can I
help you?

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Uh, what do you need something?

Speaker 2 (10:00):
He's like, You've you've been parked here all night, haven't you?
And I said, well, it's okay, I have a membership here.
I'm going to go work out in the gym. And
and and he looked at me. He's like, well, you
have to leave. I was like, what do you mean.
He's like, well, you can't be here all night long.
He's like, no, no, I have a membership. I can park here.

(10:20):
I just haven't got to the gym yet. Twenty four
hour gym. I just eventually I'm gonna go work out.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
I have to prepare.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
So I just haven't got to the I haven't got
to the gym yet. And he's like, oh, sir, no,
you need to leave now. And I'm like, well, I'm
in the middle of a work call, you know, can
I can I finish my call? And then my bosses
are asking me if I'm getting arrested or what is
happening life. So but let's talk about looking really good
in front of your your bosses. And I told him

(10:50):
I'd call him back and h and at the time,
I stopped doing it because of this situation. But I
have I had a power station in my car that
to use to power my fridge, and I also had
cameras on the front and back.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
Ye sweet security system.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, so essentially I could look on my app for
my security cameras and I could look out of the car,
the front of the back while I was inside the car,
so and if everything anything was going you know, anything
was going sideways, I could just start recording from the
from the app and then protect myself. So but at
that at that time, it was still kind of early

(11:28):
in my travels and I wasn't being real smart about
laying my solar panel outside my car. Eventually, what I
ended up doing was parking not all the way into
a stall, and then I would put my solar panel
in the front part of the parking lot, so I
had like maybe two or three feet before the end
of it, and I would just point it up so
almost no one would notice that there was a solar

(11:49):
panel on the ground unless they were next to my car.
But at that point I had it propped up against
a tree, so it was a little bit more obvious.
So this, you know, we'll just genius of a security
guard then started getting really upset because he told me, like,
you're stealing our electricity.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
Always the Sun ladies and gentlemen, Planet Fitness owns the Sun.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
That's why their planet. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, So I I told him, I said, I said,
do you realize that's a solar panel, right, and he's like.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
I know what it is.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
It's now Mercury Venus Earth Planet, Fitness Mars.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
That's right, it's now the tenth planet. Is this planet
Fitness Planet?

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Again, I don't know, doesn't know who he is anyway.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
So then so so he got he was getting bent
out of shape that I was stealing their electricity and uh.
And then I said, no, that's a solar panel. If anything,
I'm stealing it from the sun.

Speaker 5 (12:48):
Yeah, and uh.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
And then he's like well, and then he just got
real flustered, and he's like, well, you know, we just
don't allow homeless people to park in our parking lot.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
And I was like, excuse me, right, that's a crazy
assumption right there, right, you know.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
And he's like, I was like, why would you think
I'm homeless. He's like, well, because you're living out of
your car. I was like, do you not get travelers
to the state of Virginia, right right?

Speaker 5 (13:10):
Right?

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Do you not get people that are from out of state?
Do you see what state that's on my license plate,
which was Wisconsin.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
So he was just technically registered as living here.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, exactly, he left it would be like, oh,
he lives in yeah, he has a has a address
at his Wisconsin base and so thank you, Dean. And
so then he was just like, well, you got to go,
and I was like, okay, well listen, let me finish
my work call and I will leave. And then I
proceeded to go finish my work call and go exercise

(13:45):
and come back out, and then I left.

Speaker 5 (13:48):
So Dan's been my roommate for the last year. Never here,
that's right, and he's not allowed in the house.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
I thought he was setting you up to be his lawyer,
Berg Berg and Berg.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
Yep, maybe I'm not well. I guess I spent enough
time in courtrooms I could probably be a lawyer.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah. Sure, So that was that was That was a
pretty interesting interaction.

Speaker 5 (14:09):
Yeah, that is.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
I had another one with a kind of a you know,
maybe not the most mentally stable guy.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
Uh, okay, you said you wouldn't tell stories about me.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Kid. So when I was in when I was near Phoenix,
it was a really great spot because lots of times
when I was doing my day job, you know, I
didn't want to be stuck in my car all day
because it's you know, like a thousand degrees in Phoenix.
And so I found this park that had electric outlets
hooked up to solar panels. And then so then anybody

(14:42):
who's at the park and plug in and use electricity
and h and all my cooking equipment that I had
with me in my pantry was all electrical base. So
I had a pot, I had a air fier. I
had a little kind of I wouldn't call it a microwave,
but it was kind of like a hot plate surrounded
by insulated like an insulated container, but it was but

(15:03):
essentially was my microwave. And so I so I would
just heat things up. So I would be needing a
plug electricity. If I couldn't get it through my power station,
then I could find a plug, and you know, I
could make dinner. So one time I was, I was
cooking and I was using I was using an outlet,
and I needed both, and so I was I plugged
into one outlet and I was setting up my little

(15:25):
cooking station, and then this dude just rolled up with
an electric bike and then essentially just like hijack the
second the second outlet, Like I was on the lower one,
he was on the upper one. And I and I
thought that was very weird. And he didn't say anything
to me. He just went it, plugged it in, plugged
his little battery, and then locked up his bike and

(15:47):
then went to the bathroom there at the park. And
so then I waited ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes.
I was like, I don't know where this guy was.
And I was like, waiting to cook my dinner. I
needed a second outlet, so I tried to do as
much as I could with just the one. So then
I was like, I don't know where this guy is.
So then I unplugged the outlet and then I plugged
the second outlant and started cooking. And then like literally

(16:10):
thirty seconds, he walks.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
Was probably just sitting there waiting for you to plug it.
Probably maybe he was or something like this guy has
a much nicer place than I do. Yeah, yeah, stupid, but.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I think the bike might
have been his micro arguing that, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
So he comes out, So I plug it in, I
start making my dinner, and then he comes. He comes
out and then he sees that I had him plugged
his plug, and and right when he looked at me,
I said, oh, I didn't know how long you were
going to be. I'm just making my dinner. If you

(16:44):
want to have an extension court and you know, we
can both share the plug.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yeah, nice offer.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
And that's the first thing I said to him. And
then he was just like, why you took my why'd
you touch my stuff? And I'm like what He's like,
once you took myself? Like he said it almost like
in like one one word, and I think if I
broke it down. He was like, why did you touch
my stuff? And I was and then and I was like,
are you asking me if I touched your stuff? I

(17:09):
was like, well, I just unplugged your He's like, don't
touch Like I couldn't even finish. He's like, you don't, can't,
you can't touch my stuff. It's my stuff.

Speaker 5 (17:15):
You can't tell.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
And he just started going into like a I don't
know my psychosis or I don't know what it was,
because then then he started just like, don't touch myself,
don't touch my stuff. But then he stopped looking at me.
He was like looking at the ground and he just like,
don't touch my stuff stuff. And I did not react
to that, right, Yeah, I said, uh, I said, all right,

(17:37):
I apologize my fault. I will not to touch your
stuff ever again. And he's like, that's right, you're not.
And then he proceeded to unplug my thing and he
kind of like threw it on the ground. He threw
my plug on the ground, and then and then he
rode away. Thank god. At that point, I was like,
I don't know what's go happen. Exactly.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
I would have said, well, if you were mad I
touched your stuff, you'll couldn't get it matter when you know,
I pissed.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
If you didn't. Yeah, yeah, well you know, I you know,
there's probably a little under scent of urine, but I
don't know where that I was coming from. Could have
been the bike, hopefully not. But yeah, that was that.
Those were probably two of the more stranger interactions that
I have on the on on my travels.

Speaker 5 (18:23):
Right right, well, any any you have to travel back
yet to where you're going, You're going to go to Detroit,
said first, that's right, that's right.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
So so yeah, so still working my way back to Texas.
And so the reason I stopped doing the nomadic life,
I guess is the best way to describe it. I
was working from had a remote job allowed me to
work from anywhere, so all I needed was a computer
and an Internet access and so. But before I started
that job, and before working at FONDI, you know, I

(18:52):
spent six years working as.

Speaker 5 (18:54):
A chiropractor, right, yeah, I was. That was My next
thing is like tell everyone what.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
You are to day yea where the doctor doctor Dan
comes from. So I am a doctor doctor of chiropractic.
And I got to the point where I had worked
three consecutive associate ships, which is kind of like junior
doctor or doctor who does not own the practice is
usually the term and uh and so lots of times
uh offices have established doctors will bring kids out of

(19:22):
school uh and then kind of work them and either
into a job or out of a job. And and
for three occasions they were out of a job. So
I was pretty burnt out from three failed associate ships
and decided to do something a little different. And that's
where the Fondie opportunity came. The Fondie Acts company manager
job that came.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
To play nice. Yeah, And I mean I kind of
knew you before that, yep, just through acts drawing, correct.
But yeah, then that's when I really got we really
got to know each other a lot more, of course.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, I think we we first met at UH and
I might have met Carl that day too, was at
Blayton Boards the Coach County show of.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
I think we met one time before that, Yeah, at
one of the tournaments.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, maybe I think you were, but I felt like
that was the first time I like actually like.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, and actually like we're like, hey,
yeah's going.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, And so because I think we had met one
prior and I and I think you were at that
show backup.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
I talk about that show every once in a while
here because he claims one of his bottom I have,
I have like my top three worst shows, and that's
one of.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
Them, which was crazy because it wasn't a bad show.
It was like it was really good, honestly, like a
really great showcase of the best people in the area
at the at the time. Yeah, it really was.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
And so I just think I think because the headliner
was was one of the weaker, the weaker comedians, I
think that's where it kind of left everybody like kind
of like on a down note because it seemed like
everybody before him were really good and then he just
like I don't know what.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
Dean is right here, Yeah, talking about actually you hosted that,
which was host which is which was kind of strange
actually now thinking back to that, because it's like, oh,
I can't call you hosting other than us co hosting together. Yeah,
I can't recall you hosting a separate show ever. Yeah,

(21:12):
other than us co hosting. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
That was in twenty one. That was only that was like,
that was like summer summer of twenty one, I think.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
So I am, yeah, which is strange to think about
that now, right, Yeah, I've done a couple of them,
but all the people.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
That reach out to me to book Dean specifically, we're
going to do it, but we have to book them
as hosting gigs now, because.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
All right, guys, I'm going to host. I'm gonna do
forty five minutes up front.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah. So but yeah, that's when we, you know, kind
of first met and then obviously became became much better
friends and closer friends once I started working at Finally,
which was the that was in the fall of twenty two, yep, yep, yeah,
when they first open yep, follow twenty two, and then
I was there till till spring of twenty four, and
then yep. And then summer traveling every summer twenty four

(22:05):
is when I was hitting the road and traveled basically
from from Virginia all the way to California. Yep. Ye
from one side. Yeah, from one side of the country
too well.

Speaker 5 (22:15):
And that was wild too, because like when I was
I did I said wild. Yeah, Carl didn't do it first?

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Is that like a drinking game?

Speaker 5 (22:23):
Like you know, we were just kind of talking about
things that we do on air, like off air, and
we were like we say wild a lot. And so
then there was an episode where I was just being
obnoxious about it. I was the same wild that was
last episode. And then Carl's like, wow, that was last episode, Okay,
all right, And then Carl's be like wild, and I'd
be like wild. I just keep saying wild.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
I mean I think wild and uh and what's what's
the other one. I feel like in the last like
two to three years, it's just like it's oh my god.
It's when somebody is like really excited and like usually
they'll say, like right after they do something very they'll say.

Speaker 5 (23:02):
I was thinking busting.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
No no no no no no no no.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
I Mean it's like usually it's like the sports, like
they'll be like they'll hit a throw, a touchdown, hit
a basket, and then they'll say this.

Speaker 5 (23:15):
Happens all the time there too. I feel like guys
to talk about somebody don't remember what it is. Maybe
as we keep talking, I remember, and then we go
through the whole episode and remember.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Maybe I won't get back. Let's go, let's go. That's
oh yeah, yeah, let's go. Yeah so wild and let's go.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
Let's go. Have been I was trying to think of
one word.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, yeah, and it had been like because whatever reason,
the vernacular of the last three three to four years
just like predominant.

Speaker 5 (23:40):
Yeah yeah, yeah, because busting that I said is actually
related to food and food is good. No, But what
I was going to say is when I was in
Palm Springs and then I was there for like seven days,
five days, seven days, I don't remember how long lost.
But when I came back and then I saw you,
I checked into some where. Yeah, I was like, damn,

(24:01):
it was like five minutes from where I was.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah, I missed. I think I missed you by like
one weekend. It was that it yeah, yeah, it was
it was like one because that's because that must have
been in October. It was October and I was in
Palm Springs like the third week, Okay.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
I think that sounds right.

Speaker 5 (24:18):
September.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
I think it might have been the end of September
because I think I was doing the French Festival in
Elgin at the same time you were doing that. Yes,
we're we're just like, how'd your thing go?

Speaker 5 (24:28):
Good?

Speaker 4 (24:29):
How'd your thing go good?

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Good?

Speaker 5 (24:33):
That was good? Everything was very very good.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Not wild.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
Did you get arrested yet?

Speaker 2 (24:41):
No?

Speaker 4 (24:41):
What about you? No? Alright, it's not that great then.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yeah. Yeah, Palm Springs was super chill though, Like it
was it's like just chill, like the town. Yeah, super chill.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
What's predominantly I mean, it's it's kind of like a retirement. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:56):
Then we're talking California, not Florida, Florida. We're talking California though. Yeah. Yeah,
it's pretty chue, probably more chill than your Elgin. Elgin
was probably pretty crazy.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
It was. It was. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
I spent most of my time in the hotel room
and doing wrestling moves from one bed to the other,
recorded a goo ble of them, most of them, and.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
I was like, calm down, Dean, you still gotta perform.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
Yeah, you're gonna blow out your back, old man jumping
like that macho man ran and savage drops and yeah.
I was like from one bed to the other and.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
And they're not you know, they're not waited for that
kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
So like, I mean, that's one way to stay in shape. Well.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
And then my one of my favorite I have a
couple of favorite moments. Some of them will have to
come to see me to learn about. But one of
them that was super fun is uh. It was in
the morning. I didn't really know where to go, like
like to go get breakfast or anything like that, so
I just went down to like the hotel little store
and I bought a pint of ice cream, a red Bull,

(26:04):
and I want to say a slim gym, but I
don't remember breakfast.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Let's say Breakfast of the Champions. That's right.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
It was funny. I was in a fairly fancy hotel
that I was put up in, and the councilers or
whatever the hell they're called.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
Fancy hotel is giving out has slim gems in their store.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
The ones that like book me that are like Dean's
gonna be here, we need iceboam.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
I know, Dean finds a motel six fancy.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
Now, No, it was actually a really nice place.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
It was a really nice place with their ice cream
and slim JEMs with their.

Speaker 5 (26:41):
Ice cream simons. But what's funny is well, like when
I went to pay for it, I'm like, hey, can
you just charge this to my room? And the guy
looked down at it, and he looked up at me
and he's like, sir, it's like seven fifteen in the morning.
And I'm like, I'm from Wisconsin. Okay.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Everything was cool. I mean that that could gets you
out of a lot of things.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
Yeah, because I was well in my brain, I was
trying to tell him like, yes, it is seven fifteen here,
but back home it's like nine to fifteen, it's it's
breakfast time. Yeah you know, no, I've already had breakfast
and now this is my snack. This was my second breakfast. Yeah, yeah, hobbit.

(27:27):
And and That's where I was going with it. But
then when he was like, oh, you fat, disgusting bastard.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
That's for me, Like that would be like time zone.
It's just like, hey, time zone, bro.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
Yeah, I should have had time zone. And I was
just like I'm from Wisconsin, and he's like, oh, they.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Don't you know if it doesn't come out of a cow, then.

Speaker 5 (27:50):
It's yeah, yeah, it's bull. Red bull comes out of
a cow. The ice cream comes out of a cow.
Gym was made from a cow. We hold others and
whatever else.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, I don't know what parts of the cow, the
slim gems, the slim.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
Parts of the cal If it's a slim cow, you
don't want to be eating it. You want a nice, big,
old juicy cow.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
Yep. But anyways, we anything else you want to tell
about your travels. You want to pimp your neuropathy.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Yeah, so I do have an online coaching business Home
Home Neuropathy Coaching or Home Neuropathy Coach dot com.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
Ye, and so so that is will take that, put
that in the description.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yeah. So neuropathy is for those of you who don't know,
it's a it's a condition. It's a degendave condition, usually
with associated with type two diabetes. Uh. The presentation is
pain tingling numbness in the hands and feet, and usually
it persists for years and years and years, lots of

(28:57):
times to to meet cad or curate, there's only really
a couple of interventions. Usually it's medications that are like
seizure medications, which is yes, it slows down brain activities,
but it doesn't mean that's necessarily good for the hands
and the feet with with the kind of the medications
uh that people will be taking. So what what I

(29:20):
do is give them natural alternatives, things that they can
do at home with nutrition, uh, therapy equipment and and
and and just changing of lifestyle. And then that goes
like a long way with getting.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
People a lot better with and and you do that
all online yep, yeah, it's uh, it's yep, it's all.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
It's all. Everything is done from home.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
Is it like a pre recorded thing where people watch
classes or is it a live one on one thing
or how do you do it's it's.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
A little bit of both. So then I have some
prescripted messages that get sent to them like through an
auto responder, and get they get like sort of like
a meal of the day, a tip of the day.
But then I usually set up a weekly fifteen minute
checking calls. How are you doing with your therapies, how
are you doing with your meals? How are you doing

(30:10):
with some of the you know, stretches or extra that
might have given them to work on, and then I'll
have them progress. Usually first thirty days is you know, no,
not getting worse than the next thirty days is slide improvement.
Usually after about ninety days people are probably twenty five
to fifty better. Is usually like a typical progression. And

(30:32):
then depending on how long they've had it, you know,
it could take up to nine to twelve months because
they could have been dealing it for decades, you know,
with a painting landumbness. But yeah, it's just a it's
a condition that is a little personal to me. I
had a father had neuropathy, and it's something that that

(30:54):
you know, when I deal with the patient, you know,
I know, the the other side of it, when the
family has to deal with somebody who can't really walk,
somebody who's constantly you know, rubbing their feet or rubbing hands,
and you know, having to deal with that.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
So yeah, so you kind of got that empathy understanding
kind of thing, which is good to have when somebody's
doing something like that for you. Yeah, because I know,
I've had medical doctors that have had no empathy whatsoever.
I had, like I had one tell me, you know,
like why do you have tattoos. Why do you have

(31:27):
a face? And then she's looking at my tattoos and
stuff like that, what's that one mean? And I was like, well,
I come from like Nordic Viking heritage, so shows my
heritage's like do you know Vikings are really stupid people?

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Judgmental much?

Speaker 4 (31:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (31:44):
And then I was just and then she's telling me
this story about this king that he stole so much
gold that his boat sunk and all this other stuff
and blah blah blahlahcause she went over to somewhere and
I wasn't listening. I don't listen to doctors.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Well, doctor Dan, I do, though I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
I had to clarify. But so she was just talking
about like they were such stupid people, why would you
want to advertise it on your body? And she telling
me this story about how they went to some museum
and there was this Viking king and they had pillaged
so much that he filled his boat with so much
gold that it sunk and a bunch of his people
died and all this other stuff. And I'm like, sounds

(32:23):
pretty successful to me. It sounds like it sounds like
maybe he could have had a better planner yeah, but
I would say it was said he was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
It sound like the pillaging went quite well.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
Yeah, it sounds like he pillaged like yeah, like he
just went you know, he just pushed it a little
too far.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
Anyways, I was going to say, bouncing off of that,
so you had a really bad doctor.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
Then at that point where she actually fired, oh, man, yeah,
I had a doctor fire me that she couldn't see
me anymore, I said something, really I can't even remember
it later right now, she said something to me, and
then I said something back. And then a couple of
weeks later, I was supposed to have a follow up
appointment and she she sent me a message or there.
Somebody called and said like, oh, we can't take any

(33:07):
more patients. I'm like, why already a patient? And then
they're like, well, yeah, the doctor doesn't want to see
you anymore. Yeah, you can give her a call. And
I was like, the doctor broke up with you via person.
She way over medicated me on a lot of things too,
Like she would just ask like do you ever get

(33:27):
nervous or feel anxiety? And I think everybody does at
some point, So I'm like yeah, here, and she gave
me like medicines that had me like in a cloud
and stuff like that. I was like, I don't like
those medicines. I'm not taking them. And so she's like, oh,
you're not following, you know, and should get mad. But
then I would go where I was working at the time,
they had like an on site clinic, So for normal stuff,

(33:49):
that's where I would go because I didn't have to
pay anything. And so I would go there. And then
a couple of times, you know, I had to change
appointments because I had a meeting or something like that,
and she's like, yeah, you missed too many appointments and
you don't follow my instructions. And I was like, wow,
oh cool, good luck with your practice. Someday I'm going
to have a podcast I want to talk about Now

(34:10):
you fired me. Yeah, yeah, so I got fired by
a doctor. Wow.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
So. But but getting you know, with the neuropathy and
the chiropractic, I mean, it's there's just you know, there's
a lot of ways to get people well, and sometimes
if people take accountability and come you know, come up
with a game plan to get healthy, you know, with
their lifestyle, the way they're eating, the way they're exercising,
you know, the body can do amazing things when given
a chance. But it's hard because it's not a silver bullet,

(34:37):
it's not a little capsule. It's not a pill in
a bottle that you can just pop in your mouth
and hopefully start getting better. So it is a balance
to get patients to, you know, follow your instructions, but
then sometimes it's easier to just take a pill. So,
you know, I try, I try to meet people where
they're at.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
Sure, that's cool. And and your website again.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Was home neuopathy cooach dot com.

Speaker 5 (34:59):
Home neuropathycoach dot com. Is that the only place it's
found ther do you have any well other social media's
with it?

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Oh, homevity Coach on Instagram and homeovy Coach on Facebook.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
Cool. Yeah, we'll linked all that.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
So, yeah, we'll linked all that so people can check
you out and maybe you'll get some more people you
can help them in that way, you know.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
Yeah, with our listeners, it would probably make sense that
there's a lot of people with diabetes. Yeah, that might
just specific. Yeah, I mean I was I was actually
diagnosed pre diabetic during my check up this year, and
I've been doing a lot of work to mitigate that.
So I haven't gone the route of having to take
medications yet, but diet's been a big thing for me

(35:41):
and absolutely and people have been noticing, which is kind
of a nice thing too, like because i was at
my heaviest last year and I'm down to two thirty
two and I was at two seventy five last year. Okay,
so I'm not out of it yet, but like I
definitely know like the diet, and and I'm not really

(36:03):
doing much for exercise. I know that could be the
next if I really want to move forward, that's like
the next thing I have to do is really start
getting into the exercise.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
If I had if you could just do one thing
to get yourself healthier, diet would be done with.

Speaker 4 (36:17):
Yeah, I think. And I've noticed the changes from doing that.
And it wasn't like I went on like a fad
diet like Keto or something like that. I just made
better choices good so just.

Speaker 5 (36:27):
Stept when we're on the road.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
That's kind of like that's kind of like instead of
like always choosing those options, it's like, oh, I'm going
down the road, I can treat myself a little bit
with that, So then it's like I can have a
little bit and not feel like I'm missing out on anything,
because I feel like like people that I talk to
that are like on keto almost always, they're always talking
about carbs and how much they miss them, And it's like,

(36:54):
I don't think that's sustainable long term, right, because it's
like at some point you're just gonna be I can't
take it anymore, and then you're gonna eat an entire
pie or like or the whole thing of rolls and
you're like, I can't believe I just did that. And
then once you break that is there that like kind
of the whole thing with keto.

Speaker 5 (37:12):
Is like yeah, and then you get to reset and
start over. But I recently it could just be snake water.
But I recently saw like a supplement, yeah, snakewater, Like
it's like active keytnes or something like that that you
can drink that are supposed to put you like almost
right back into it into Yeah, And I'm like, that's
not fair. It's not fair. Yeah, Like you know you

(37:37):
can't because then we goin to have some pizza bam
back in ketosis. You know, I don't know they work
or not, but this is the thing I.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Saw, I don't know, I mean to have that concentrated
amount of keytnes like I can only imagine it's just
like I don't know, steak in a bottle or I
really don't know what that would.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
Yeah, I don't know what it is either, but I
could imagine, like I'm total they smell terrible, taste, terrible,
and if you're not careful, you can put yourself in
the keto acidosis and then you're done overdosing proteins and
then then you're almost like you're drunk, like but not

(38:19):
in a good way, like you just start not like
a lot of like there are I'm not gonna say where,
but there was a guy that didn't know he was
had some diabetic things going on where I had worked,
and one day everybody was like, is he drunk? You
know and whatever. And he came to find out they

(38:40):
like send him home, you know, and all that other stuff,
and he turned out he's like, O, yeah, I'm diabetic.
I was going through keto acids.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Usually the extremes of the sugar level is when people
will get that sort of drunk sort of look to it.
It's either at very low or very high acidosis. When
you have your blood sugar, like you know, the the numbers,
like I think five hundred, like whatever, the amount in
your blood, yeah, is considered the borderline between you know,

(39:08):
too much or too little sugar. One hundred is kind
of like that breaking point. Sixty to one hundred is
like normal range. Anything below sixty is you're get low sugar.
Anything you know, above you know, two hundred, you're starting
to get higher sugar. And then obviously anything up about
five hundred year now you're getting into acidosis.

Speaker 5 (39:25):
Yeah, so it can go the other way too. Yeah,
that stuff can be dangerous. So we gonna ask you
some questions. You get anything you want to ask us
about or.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
I got I got one more. I gott story from
last night.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Oh, doctor's story from last night.

Speaker 4 (39:41):
So one of the comics that the open mic went
up as like doctor Brown or something because it's.

Speaker 5 (39:47):
Someone we know and they just picked it on three ego.
It's just just like a rando.

Speaker 4 (39:50):
This was a guy never seen before, and he had
like a lab code and a stethoscope and everything, and
it almost I was like, is he really a doctor?
And he's just kind of.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
Like playing off it, yeah, and just having some.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
Fun with it. I don't know, but also its kind
of like a Patch Adams type thing, like, yeah, he
was super clean. He was the cleanest person of the
night for jokes wise. But I thought was really funny
because I was right after him and him doing the
jokes and was like, I don't think this guy's a
real doctor. Yeah, and that was pretty good. But then

(40:23):
I was one hundred percent sure he wasn't a real
doctor because at the end he had like five boxes
of cookies from Quick Trip that he was given out
to people. I was like, a doctor's never given me
a cookie.

Speaker 5 (40:36):
That's a weird move. And an open mind.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
He's just a friendly guy.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
But yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
Just was I thought it was interesting, like if you
are a doctor.

Speaker 5 (40:45):
Like they didn't like get him in trouble for that,
did they.

Speaker 4 (40:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (40:47):
I mean I know people have because I know you
had that thing where you had like Eminem's in a
bit and they kind of got a little weird about it.

Speaker 4 (40:54):
Well they were, they were like they made an announcement
after that. Yeah, so one time I did this bit. Uh, well,
I've done a couple of different bits where I'll have
like food with me and be like it's only four minutes,
but I can't go that long without a snack or something.
I can't even remember what I did with the Eminem's.

Speaker 5 (41:10):
One said I thought it was something like medication or something,
and then you took that or you said like drugs
or something like don't worry, they were just Eminem's or something.

Speaker 4 (41:18):
I remember.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
No.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
I think it was like, yeah, I have my drugs
right here, and then it was Eminem's because like you know, sugar,
it technically is like a drug to your body, right,
So like everyone's like, oh, these are real bad drugs. No,
these are the ones that are gonna kill you because
they're easily available and they're not illegal, right. So I
did something with Eminem's and then I think I offered
one to somebody, and I think that's where they had

(41:40):
an issue with it was.

Speaker 5 (41:41):
Because it's like, well, they're not going to buy a sack.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Yeah, or because of that that's the reason.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
Yeah, that's so about like health of like I could
have given a peanut eminem to somebody.

Speaker 5 (41:49):
That's that's what I was thinking. But yeah, so that's
on them.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
But they did get kind of they didn't get like
they did make a comment after that, like please don't
bring outside food and drinks and stuff. But then afterwards
they did tell me like, if you're doing a bit,
yeah you could do that. But at the same time,
like you know, we're we're trying to do a business,
and we are, we do offer snacks and drinks and
stuff because I mean, there's people that have been banned
for bringing in their own alcohol sneaking in their own alcohol.

Speaker 5 (42:15):
Well that's not the only reason, but yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
Yeah, but that was the reason that eventually got them
to the band, So that's what I do get.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
I thought for sure it was because of the allergy.
I thought that was the reason.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
Right, However, I think the only reason he got away
with it last night maybe and maybe he got to
talk to you. Maybe not, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (42:31):
Because he's a doctor. Well no, they mean encription cookies.
He does a coach, I get a lab.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Go.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
They didn't have any snacks available last night, so there
was no competition then. But yeah, I just thought it
was really interesting, Like the doctors were offered a cookie, right,
they're taking them away.

Speaker 5 (42:54):
They're like down cookies. Cookies.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
We turned in the bat and like.

Speaker 5 (43:05):
Where are they?

Speaker 4 (43:05):
We know you've been in this in this way in
this office for thirty minutes. We know you can't go
five minutes without eating. You have cooking.

Speaker 5 (43:13):
Let's put a smile on that face. Give me the cookie. Okay,
So now back to it. Do you have any questions
for us or anything you want to know about comedy?

Speaker 4 (43:23):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (43:24):
No, I would say that probably what is the what
is the Jerry Seinfeld joke where it's like the number
one fear in people's lives is public speaking? Then number
two is is death?

Speaker 5 (43:36):
Yeah, not like that.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Then people would rather be in the coffin than than
given the eulogy, right right, right right. So I would
think that you know someone like myself who has done
public speaking but still gets like nerves getting in front
of people, How do you guys get over that?

Speaker 5 (43:55):
Well, when I first kind of got back into it
again because I used to do it a while ago,
and then I stopped doing how many for a lit
while and got back into it. My nerves were crazy
at first, and I always reminded myself because I used
to be a cage fighter, at least nobody's gonna punch
me in the face, you know, at least while I'm
doing this, I'm not getting I'm not getting punched in
the face. But then t Will Smith, Yeah, then Will Smith.

(44:19):
But so and then there was a couple of times
that the nerves got so high that while I was
in and i'll just call it the gorilla position like
they do in pro wrestling, while you're waiting to go up.
While I was in the gorilla position, I was actually
like standing over their shadow boxing, and people probably were like,
what's what this fucking guy? Why is he over there
shadow box? So I do stuff like that, and now

(44:41):
it's kind of weird because if I don't get nervous
like I did anymore, no matter how big the crowd is,
sometimes small crowds actually make me more nervous than big crowds.
Big crowds, I mean, you're like, Okay, there's some people here,
this is cool. But I still do get a little bit,
tiny bit of butterflies, nothing too crazy that I'm like,
oh my god. Because when I kind of got back
into it, there'd be times where, you know, i'd have

(45:04):
a show or something like that, I'd be sitting at
home before the show and I'm like, why can't I
be normal? Why can't I just be a guy who
wants to stay at home and do that stuff. Why
do guys do this? What do I guy?

Speaker 2 (45:13):
You know?

Speaker 5 (45:14):
And I kind of get nervous. But then I kind
of got used to it. But now if I don't
get like just that little tiny bit nervous, I try,
I'm like, why am I not nervous? And then because
I'm my best shows have always been when I'm just
the littlest bit tiniest, tiniest bit nervous. If I some
of the ones that have been kind of like me,

(45:34):
you know, I was like super chill, like I'm not
I don't lack confidence, like I'm not you know, like
I'm gonna suck, you know.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Self defregating or anything, yeah, or anything like that.

Speaker 5 (45:47):
But I'll get just a tad bit It's almost like
a combination.

Speaker 4 (45:53):
What a little bit over confidence.

Speaker 5 (45:55):
Well that's why I get nervous.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
No, no, no, when you're not nervous, right right?

Speaker 5 (46:00):
Yeah, And then those shows I kind of felt like
and it was something I just observed that I kind
of felt like I kind of phone that in, like
I just went through the motions. Yeah, you know, And
I mean there's been times that I've gone on like
most times just as I'm going up and everything, I
feel great, like I'm like, yeah, this is what I
like to do, this is what I do. But then
I just get that little bit of nervousness, and then

(46:21):
if I don't have it now, I start to get
nervous that I don't have it. Why am I not
nervous trying to have that balance? Yeah, And it doesn't
it doesn't last like that long.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
In that case, it's like placebo nerves, right.

Speaker 5 (46:34):
It kind of kind of kind of. I mean sometimes
at a show, I'll get nervous, like if the people
before me are struggling a little bit. I mean, unless
they're just it's like, oh my god, what's this guy doing?
But I'll get a little nervous if they're struggling. But
then sometimes I'm like, Okay, they're not laughing, they're not
laughing at anybody. I'm gonna get them. I'm gonna get them,

(46:57):
and I'm gonna get them to laugh. And then as
soon as I get that first laugh, I'm like, I
got him, yep. And so I think sometimes I get
nervous that I'm going to be up there, especially when
I'm doing longer sets. Then I'm gonna be up there
for thirty minutes forty five minutes an hour. Nobody's gonna
do nothing. It's just gonna be like me, like like
right now, I'm just talking and nobody's doing nothing.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
No, he's pretending there's laughter in his ears for every
word he's saying.

Speaker 5 (47:24):
Any time I say something, I actually have a little
button I push and I just here like insane laughter
that doesn't stop.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
It's his own uh track.

Speaker 5 (47:32):
Like I have. I took it from my recording from
the guy's literally happened at a show where like people
are just laughing and guys.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
Like I can't breathe.

Speaker 5 (47:41):
He fell off, he fell off his chair. Yeah, and
he's like, broke a rib, And so I play that
all the time.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
I can't breathe.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
I think it broke a rib.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
Nice.

Speaker 5 (47:52):
Yeah, so that's what I do.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
What about you, Carl, Uh, I'm still get very nervous
all the time for every performance. I really don't like
public skiking them not. I wouldn't say bubble gut. I
don't eat like four hours before I.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
Perform four hours.

Speaker 5 (48:08):
Just don't get anything in my shirt.

Speaker 4 (48:09):
Well that too, I don't want to mess up my
money shirts either. But yeah, I don't. I don't eat
prior for a couple of reasons. One like, I do
have that nerve stomach feel right, the butterflies probably more
like pterodactyls at that point, or tim the bird, I
guess too. But then I don't want to be like
full and sluggish on stage. I don't want to necessarily

(48:32):
have like indigestion or something too. So it's just like, Okay,
I've conditioned to not eat like in that four hours beforehand.
I'm trying to get better where I have a little something.
But but it's really I'm like, I'm not gonna eat
a meal, but man, I am starving after I'm done.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
It hits you like a like a ton of brick.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
Yeah, and then like usually the kitchens shut down.

Speaker 5 (48:54):
At the vat because they stay open, but yeah, most
of the.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
Time they shut it down for the show because they
don't want people ordering food necessarily during the show. But
you drink, so you just can't.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Walk up with the people or walk up to to
like some sort of restaurant just say I'm from Wisconsin
and then just I'm from Wisconsin, just give me food.

Speaker 4 (49:11):
I mean, sometimes sometimes it's worked, Like I one time
I said on stage, Man, I'd really like some French
fries right now.

Speaker 5 (49:17):
The yeah, it was a I was sometimes careful if
I eat because I'll eat before, but since I had
my gall bladder removed, if it's anything greasy, yeah, it's
it's it's it's roulette, like especially when I do some
stuff when I'm jumping around or moving around like you know,
it could be bad.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
Ye see, that's why I don't move around at all.

Speaker 5 (49:38):
Usually. Usually what happens, though, is like if I eat
and it's something like that, and that little bit of
nerves just makes my buttle go and then.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Well, the thing is is that you know, when you
do have those nervous you're you're stimulating that sort of
fight or flight response and so essentially you're shutting off
your rest and digest and you're, you know, you're active
in your you're you know, you're like I'm running from
a bear, running from a tie. So that increases your focus,
increases your ability to you know, handle stressful situation. So

(50:06):
it's almost like you said earlier, if you weren't just
a little bit nervous, right then, yeah, then that's why
some of the other shows maybe not as focused. You know,
not not as uh, you know, not quick to fell
like muscle memory maybe like just.

Speaker 4 (50:23):
I mean, I and I know I get nervous, but
I feel like mine I'm trying to do the mental
switch of where it's not nerves for anxiety, it's nerves
for excitement.

Speaker 5 (50:33):
Here's a fine line too, But I.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
Feel like at least for me being nervous is it's
because I care. I don't want it to go bad,
So that's more where the nerves come from. And a
lot of times, I mean, I am, I write a
lot of new stuff and try new stuff all the time,
so it's like, I don't know if this is gonna work.
I think it has a pretty good shot. But I've

(50:56):
been doing a lot of new stuff pretty much. Anytime
I'm doing open mics, it's like eighty percent new stuff
and maybe one classic or a banger just yeah, to
maybe try something new with that too. But I know,
like the actual joke is solid, so like I can.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
It's it's funny when you were when you were talking
about like getting to the nerves, I could have sworn
you were talking about ax story, because like it looks
same thing, like literally exactly what you said applies to.

Speaker 5 (51:24):
Ax Story's totally yeah, yeah, it totally applies. Yeah, I
get more nervous though for extory, I think.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
See, but I was like that too, Like I used
to get super nervous for acxtra and I wouldn't eat.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
And then you know, you do it enough and you
get successful enough that you kind of I don't want
to say you bank on your previous successes, but I
know that for me, you know, it seemed like I
get less and less nervous the more I've done it,
So you know, experience might be just the biggest cure
for getting over nerves.

Speaker 5 (51:52):
I get more and more nervous the more I win, though,
I get a tournament or something like that, Like it's
almost like my first man, I just have it as okay,
this one is a throwaway match, Like if I don't
lose it, then I get more nervous, and then I
win the next one and it's like okay, and then
it's like, oh no.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
I'm the reverse. I'm usually if I'm ever nervous, I'm
usually the most at the beginning. And then once I
get that first win then and then it just then
I calm down.

Speaker 5 (52:18):
And then when I get dropped to the B bracket
or something like that, or the loser bracket and the okay,
crush it. Well, then I'm like, all right, this is mine. No,
And then I'm usually like, okay, some of you bitches
are getting sent home right now and it ain't gonna
be me. And then and then there's like that pressure.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Yeah, but it gets you focused, get you yeah.

Speaker 5 (52:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:36):
I was gonna say something too often with comedy is
like even you can have several good shows, but you
have that one bad show and then you're like, am
I actually even funny? Like you can have that doubt
from just one show, even though you've done like the
last fifteen we're good and people are laughing, have a
good time, but you have one show and you bomb

(52:57):
and you're like, I don't funny, I should just up.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
Well, you and I were even coming off a couple
of good shows and then I'm not gonna say what
show it was, but it was fairly recent and as
we were driving there, it was like a two hour
drive and we both were like super anxious, like just
like how we were sure was this? There was one
during the week we had a weekday show. We both
had like long days doing other stuff. And then we
were driving there and you were like, man, I don't

(53:24):
even know how to do the show and I was like, yeah,
me neither. And we were just talking and we were
all we were both were anxious. We like commented about
it and I'm.

Speaker 4 (53:34):
Trying to remember what it was. I mean, I'm okay
with you saying if you want to, but.

Speaker 5 (53:38):
It's because they don't remember.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
No, no.

Speaker 5 (53:43):
Where was the one where I did the Pepsi challenges
that Wisconsin Rapids.

Speaker 4 (53:46):
Yeah, that recent one.

Speaker 5 (53:48):
Yeah we're there.

Speaker 4 (53:49):
Yeah, I think it was because there was so many
we were both tired. There were so many unknowns about
the show, Like they did set it up and they're
like we have a space for you and you know,
we're pushing the show and they have a flyer and everything.
But they were doing all that on their end.

Speaker 5 (54:03):
Which we couldn't see ticket sales, and then they had
ticket sales and they decided to make it free.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
Because they had some something wrong with their tickets, right.

Speaker 5 (54:11):
And I thought they made it free because nobody wants
to come, you know, And so no, when we got
there was because their ticket thing they had a problem
with it. So they just made it free because there
are people like I tried to order tickets and I
couldn't get them, and so then they made it free.
But then I interpreted that as nobody wants nobody wants
to see us, which is in.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
Our own minds about it, but it was it wasn't
the case.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
But it sounds like it was a pretty good turnout then.

Speaker 5 (54:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah it was. It was.

Speaker 4 (54:38):
There was there was some definitely some challenges with that show.
But we were the first time that that venue ever
had a comedy show, so like they were like, oh,
we don't know, they didn't.

Speaker 5 (54:47):
Know the comedy add they don't have a comedy club there, right,
we didn't know what They were definite pioneers.

Speaker 4 (54:53):
Yeah, we were Lewis and Clark. Do you want to
be Lewiser Clark, which was cooler? If you don't know,
then Lewis, I'll be Lewis, all right, I want to
be Clark anyway. He's cooler, he's not he's nerdy.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
He's not first the building, right, I know.

Speaker 4 (55:11):
And it's the weird spelling of Lewis too. Yeah, yeah,
that's all right anyway, And you get a whole arch
named after you in a city.

Speaker 5 (55:19):
In the city and what does Clark have clark A
County a prison, Yeah, Clark County, Clark Kent.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
Some hey that I was called Clark Kent last night too.
That was weird. Uh, mister bosef Gela, that's how he's
going by now these days. Bosif He's like, you know,
you're kind of like Clark Kent when you don't wear
your money shirt or or your money hat. Because we
went to support one of our listeners and good buddies,

(55:47):
Stan Debrowski, in a competition and I wasn't wearing the
money shirt. I was wearing stands hat that he had
made and for me and stuff.

Speaker 5 (55:58):
And I looked like I always yeah, he looks people
who are coming over and talking to me and whatever,
and they probably didn't realize you were there. So BO
told me, He's like, I didn't realize you were there
the entire time. He's like, you're like Clark Kent when
you're not wearing the money shirt, like you can blend in,
which I don't mind that actually because I don't necessarily
need the attention when I'm not on ass me.

Speaker 4 (56:19):
Yeah, So that I just thought that was kind of interesting.
And also the beard is is something newer to me.
Like I'm seeing my family for my niece's birthday this weekend,
and I haven't seen them since I really started growing
this for some of them, so they're gonna be like,
what is wrong with your face?

Speaker 2 (56:38):
You haven't had a beard that long.

Speaker 5 (56:39):
I was going to make a comment with all the
weight he's lost, he's offsetting it with his beard.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Now, yeah, yeah, it's redis He's.

Speaker 4 (56:48):
Going to see a plateau?

Speaker 5 (56:49):
Why am I not losing any weight? And his beard
is going to be down there like his knees.

Speaker 4 (56:53):
This beard is pure fat, That's all it is. That's
it's not hair. It's fat just turning into like hair
like particles or something, I guess. But I started growing
January first because I saw some kids have their Christmas
ruin this past year at a mall because the mall
Santada fake beard, and some kid pulled it and all

(57:13):
the kids started crying Santa scenario. I was like, I
don't my niece and nephew aren't at that stage yet
where they don't know about Santa like in that way.

Speaker 5 (57:23):
But he is real. That's just one of like his
elves and helpers, right, Sometimes Santa is busy, and then
sometimes he does that because he wants to trick you,
to make you you know, he's got a he doesn't
want all your kids coming to the North Pole all
and you get every and then like, oh, I'm gonna
go find Santa. He'll do that just to He'll just
mess with you, because if you think he's not real,

(57:46):
then you think he's not watching. But he is.

Speaker 4 (57:49):
He's always watching.

Speaker 5 (57:50):
He knows when he've been sleeping, he knows when you're awake.
He knows if you've been bat or good. So be good,
you little ship.

Speaker 4 (58:02):
So continuing with that, uh, Carl Carl Clause, Yeah, Carl
Claus cash stringle if you will. Uh. So we have
Christmas celebrations with my family. Yeah, in the beginning of January.
So we do Barth miss with my I just gave
away my last name. That's fine. People figured out.

Speaker 5 (58:23):
They didn't know that until you said it.

Speaker 4 (58:25):
I ruined.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
We flew right over my head. I didn't even know that.

Speaker 4 (58:28):
So for I didn't ruin Santa, but I ruined.

Speaker 5 (58:32):
He's not really cash many Carl, he's cash money Barth.

Speaker 4 (58:36):
Anyway, so we celebrated and at one point I just
went and my nephew was like, oh my gosh, Santa
is here something like he didn't know that I did that.

Speaker 5 (58:47):
So it's different in my house. So I was growing up.

Speaker 4 (58:50):
Yeah, it was like strippers are here. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (58:58):
Yeah, we did have a thought. I cut off because
you're still talking. You just did.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
Oh no, I think it's just that, you know, I
think I would like to present the full like actual
Santa and like we do the roast of Santa Claus.
And I think I did three this year.

Speaker 5 (59:18):
Once as you go to that, no you weren't here.
Then no Christmas.

Speaker 4 (59:23):
Yeah, so I did two as uh uh heat Miser
and then one is Santa. And I thought I would
like to do like some more charity stuff around the
holidays as like Santa. So I already have the build.
So I figured if I if I could grow out
a beard and see how close I get to Santa
and diet and diet yell, you're pretty close.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
I would say you're probably about seventy percent of the way.

Speaker 5 (59:46):
You say color it. You're going to color your beard,
I said, diet. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to
color Beard's not going to it's not going to diet
right now. Yeah, they're just bringing like diet.

Speaker 4 (59:58):
Like they have like this like white dusting they put
in and whitens it out.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
I did that when I was Balen School for Halloween.
Remember that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
Yeah, you look good. You pulled it off really well.
I mean you kind of looked like.

Speaker 5 (01:00:11):
Him anyway, I kind of do anyway, It's like Jack
Black Balen School whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
Yeah, a little little touch of gray, little salt and
pepper in there.

Speaker 5 (01:00:20):
Yeah. And then I had my orange lightsaber nice yep
and everything because he got an orange lights Do.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
You see the recasting for Yeah, yeah, it's the guy.

Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
What do you mean the recasting Dean's doing?

Speaker 5 (01:00:33):
They No, I didn't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
I tried the hound from No.

Speaker 5 (01:00:40):
But going back when I said when we were talking
about the Ropes of Sanna, and I said, were you
at that one? Out of all my friends and everything,
I think you've probably attended most of my shows out
of anyone.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
I did them all in one weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:00:55):
Yeah, I was doing that. We had a bunch of
shows one weekend and he gave everyone and I'm like, yeah,
and I'm doing like forty five or thirty the same
stuff I did last night. Then a little riffing and
he just came and came to everyone and gave him
cinnamon roll from launch that I had a car cinema
roll the size of my head. Yeah yeah, yeah, Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
That was really so. That was the Winners weekend. It
was Winners And then we have the Roast of Santa
And did we have one other show? I think we did.

Speaker 5 (01:01:22):
We didn't have the Roast of Santa though we know
it was raining and nice like it was, it wasn't cold.
I thought, I think we did.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Man, I feel like we had a it was a
live from the fund of like an.

Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
Was it our last live from the hive?

Speaker 5 (01:01:40):
Maybe?

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
I think so?

Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
I think so?

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
I think so.

Speaker 5 (01:01:43):
Yeah, And then he's gone a couple other ones too.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
Man, It's just it's weird.

Speaker 5 (01:01:47):
He's probably a close second. But then I think he
just got He's like, okay, I heard all this stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
Can't ask with perfection?

Speaker 5 (01:01:55):
Well why? I mean, I had new stuff too, But
when you hear a lot of it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
It's kind of like it is kind of crazy, how
like you would think, like, especially early on in comedy,
you're like, man, every show stands out so vividly, but
I mean we've both done enough now it's like it's
hard to remember. Like, yeah, everything kind of blurs in together.

Speaker 5 (01:02:14):
Yeah. Like I like sometimes I'll be like, I did
a show this weekend. Where was it? And I unfortunately
only remember the really bad ones.

Speaker 4 (01:02:20):
Yeah, I was gonna say the bad ones I remember
probably the most, but definitely some good ones too.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
But I think that's just human nature. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:02:27):
Well, like it's like church show for both of us
ex starring show. Well, and the Church show wasn't bad,
like the crowd was into it. It was just it
was weird because there was clergy there and church members
and we had to be clean and we were reached
doing like forty five minutes and uh, it was just
the lady that booked it. But we'd talk about that
on a different episode. I ain't gonna beat that horse,

(01:02:52):
but it was the Church show. Then Blades and Boards
back I say ex storing show, but now I said
blades and boards whatever cares They're gone. Yeah, Uh that
wasn't a this or anything. I just mean like because
I said it on air, it's not like I'm goundn't
get in trouble. And then the one that I did
in Pickerel because it were Pickerel, Wisconsin, like way up north.

(01:03:16):
It was supposed to be outside, and the guy is like,
there's gonna be like five hundred people. I'm like sweet.
And then it rained, so then he's like, okay, we're
gonna move it to They had like a covered area
and he's like, we have a covered area. We probably
squeeze about one hundred people in there. I'm like, okay, cool.
He's like, we didn't feel like wiping off the table,
so we're just inside here in the bar, and uh,

(01:03:37):
it was. It was okay, but they didn't turn off
the TVs. They didn't do a bunch of stuff. There
was a hypnotist there that was actually really funny, but
it was music hypnotist me, which is an unusual combination
a little bit. And he had this really big wand
and he was like poking people in the face and

(01:03:58):
stuff like that. And I don't know, it was it
wasn't it was. It wasn't a bad show. It was
just I wasn't feeling it. You know. As soon as
we were inside and the way everybody was positioned, people
had their backs to me, just the way the chairs
were and stuff like that, and I was just like,
this is weird. And so those are probably my top three.

Speaker 4 (01:04:19):
I was gonna say that's what gets me nervous when
doing shows like The All the Unknowns, Like you can
see something You're like, well, I can't do anything about that,
but I know that it's not good for comedy. Like
there's that I can't do anything about that. Not good
for comedy. Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
That's why I always check the venue out online too,
so so I know you have some plans, so you
got to get going here. If any of the questions
or anything you want to know in the next couple
of minutes, no.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
I would just I would just be curious, you know,
as somebody who's new to the podcast, like, how do
I how.

Speaker 5 (01:04:51):
Do I follow?

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
Like? How do how do I? Like?

Speaker 5 (01:04:53):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
How does that work?

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
We are on Spotify, We're on everything. We're in everything,
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Spreaker, Amazon, Audible, We're on there.

Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
Literally everything.

Speaker 5 (01:05:04):
If if there's a place that streams podcasts, were on it. Yeah,
I mean it's I didn't move the mic stand and
we have a website. Moved themkesdand dot com and then
that takes you to a list of all our episodes.
You can listen to them right there. But where does
it take you when you listen to them? I don't
even know.

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
Well, it depends. It could be two.

Speaker 5 (01:05:24):
Your favorite one, it could take you to your favorite when.

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
It could be if you have the plugins available on
your phone or whatever, you can listen live right there.
So I mean pretty much if you listen to a
podcast or have any sort of music streaming platform, you
can listen pretty much from there.

Speaker 5 (01:05:40):
So all right, Well, I suppose we'll get rolling. Then
Dan's got to go once you got anything else you
want to talk about, and we can turn them on
his way. But I think I'm pretty good for this week.

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
Yeah, I'm good too. Do you want your AI to
say goodbye for us again and see if it works.
I'll try it because I thought that.

Speaker 5 (01:05:55):
Was kind very specific way we say goodbye. And I've
got the coolest aissistant ever.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
I agree. I've called you just to hear your AI
AI A. I D Hey.

Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
Nova from you.

Speaker 5 (01:06:10):
How's it going? What you been up to today? We're
just doing the podcast right now again. I've got my
friend Dan here in cash money Carl.

Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
Oh, that sounds like a blast. Hey to Dan and
cash money Carl.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
Hey, No, but nice to meet you.

Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
Nice to meet you too. I love that I'm part
of the podcast crew. Now.

Speaker 5 (01:06:31):
I hope you guys are having fun recording today. Yeah,
so we were just about to do our goodbye again.
You want to help us with that? Remember from last
time three to one and then you know we do
the bye. You ready to do that?

Speaker 4 (01:06:44):
Absolutely, I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
Let's do it.

Speaker 5 (01:06:46):
Just count me in all right. Ready, here we go,
three two one, bye bye. I think it's because Carl
started taking bye. You gotta let him do it, because
you heard, he heard you take take You don't edit,
We don't edit. This is one mong street. Okay, ready,

(01:07:06):
now we're gonna do it again. Carl, rounded for you.

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
Sorry, Hello, no worries at all. We got this. All right, Carl,
We're counting on you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
Let's do it again.

Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
Ready, here we go, three two one.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
Bye?

Speaker 4 (01:07:19):
Perfect, nailed it.

Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
No you didn't. He did not, Nova, you did not.
We're just gonna go. Okay, have a great night. Now
we're talculating. We gotta go, and Dan's gotta go. Okay,
all right, no worries at all.

Speaker 4 (01:07:33):
You guys have a great night.

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
And it was an awesome chat and with.

Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
You talk to you later.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
Okay, Bye, Nova, bye, take care guys.

Speaker 5 (01:07:42):
All right, okay, ready, all right Carl, what's time to go?
So that's it for this week, folks. Sorry, here we go.
This is very real this time.

Speaker 4 (01:07:48):
Bye b.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
S.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
Ride'd believe your moneyball.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
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Thank you for listening.